Issues, Workarounds & Localization

tried myself to download things from my mobile, listening at youtube, installing things from the app-market..... no socket closed at all. It did happen today again in a "new way". I was logged on 3 of my accounts for hours..... all was fine. I closed them, did stuff in RL, came back after some time on another client: socket closed after 5 mins (lucky that I was still docked and reading comms)


I have a wired connection on my pc. My setup it's something like that: main modem/router <---> switch <--- my pc and another wi-fi router plugged in the switch ----> second pc and mobile sharing the wi-fi connection occasionally (very rarely, when I'm playing EVE the 2nd pc and mobile are off or have no wi-fi activated)


yesterday I was in a SB fleet with 20-30 bad guys. It happened 5 times in a couple of hrs that people got the socket closed, dc'd and uncloacked us all
Of course we all were on TS screaming and shouting!

just saying it's *something else* CCP has to work on. If it's not an FBI virus who went crazy harassing dns' around the www

I'm only 50% sure about this, but I believe internet sockets close automatically after being idle for a predefined time span. By being idle I mean that the socket isn't transferring any data. Could it be this simple, that unless you actively click or interact with the game every now and then, the sockets would close automatically?

I encountered this problem 3 times within 10 minutes, after having played without any problem for two hours. During those 10 minutes I was afk drone ratting, meaning I basically didn't press anything at all...

I will try to see if the time before the connection drops is constant, because then there's a chance this might not be very far away from the truth...

Could something like this explain my experience at the hotel Im at? The continuous traffic due to TS is keeping a socket open? Or maybe tricking whatever makes sockets for this hotel to keep all of them open due to traffic on one?

Edit: running a ping to TQ also seems to hold the socket open, at least in the odd situation I seem to be in.

Same here, never had problems before now constant DCs. Lost a hawk to this last night

Having this problem as of yesterday at around ~10pm central standard time.

I get "socket closed" and when this occurs I briefly lose access to the internet. Skype, Ventrilo, and all other applications lose access to the internet for around 10 seconds.

My router's event log does not show any events. Contacted my provider and they said the same thing. They just updated the firmware on my Motorola Surfboard SBG6580 modem but I am still experiencing the issue.

A moment ago I lost connectivity and noticed that ONLY the computer that I was using with Eve on it had a brief lapse in connectivity. I had the other computer constantly pinging timewarnercable.com with the -t switch and it did not have any issues.

I am using wired connections.

This can happen when I am outside in space relatively idle. I have active shield hardeners on and I'm not doing much. Just mining.


Provider: Time Warner Cable ( roadrunner )
Location: Richardson Texas , United States



Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Admin>tracert 87.237.38.200

Tracing route to srv200-g.ccp.cc [87.237.38.200]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 60 ms 37 ms 27 ms cpe-76-184-128-1.tx.res.rr.com [76.184.128.1]
2 19 ms 20 ms 21 ms tengig1-2.dllatxchn-rtr1.tx.rr.com [24.164.211.2
21]
3 24 ms 34 ms 32 ms tge2-4.dllatx1h-tr01.texas.rr.com [24.175.37.188
]
4 29 ms 32 ms 32 ms be21.dllatx1k-cr01.texas.rr.com [24.175.36.193]

5 23 ms 31 ms 27 ms 24.175.49.0
6 33 ms 28 ms 28 ms 107.14.17.136
7 25 ms 22 ms 21 ms ae-1-0.pr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.179]
8 26 ms 30 ms 26 ms TenGigabitEthernet2-1.ar4.DAL2.gblx.net [64.211.
60.81]
9 143 ms 140 ms 140 ms 204.245.39.42
10 137 ms 135 ms 134 ms srv245-e.ccp.cc [87.237.36.245]
11 135 ms 133 ms 139 ms srv248-e.ccp.cc [87.237.36.248]
12 137 ms 136 ms 132 ms srv200-g.ccp.cc [87.237.38.200]

Trace complete.


I ran another tracert a bit after that and got this.


C:\Users\Samurai Pumpkin>tracert 87.237.38.200

Tracing route to srv200-g.ccp.cc [87.237.38.200]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 38 ms 27 ms 55 ms cpe-76-184-128-1.tx.res.rr.com [76.184.128.1]
2 10 ms 12 ms 12 ms tengig1-2.dllatxchn-rtr1.tx.rr.com [24.164.211.2
21]
3 21 ms 23 ms 23 ms tge2-4.dllatx1h-tr01.texas.rr.com [24.175.37.188
]
4 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms be21.dllatx1k-cr01.texas.rr.com [24.175.36.193]

5 13 ms 11 ms 23 ms 24.175.49.0
6 Transmit error: code 1231.

Trace complete.


I have sent a bug report but could not attach the last tracert due to the 3000 character limit.

Another update:

The second computer that I have "survived" the disconnect. My primary computer is the only one that is effected. Going to uninstall/reinstall eve.

Getting progressively worse all day. I went from stretches as long as 30 minutes to now getting socket close errors at the character selection screen. Repaired, re installed, re downloaded and installed. Also turned off all firewalls, tried direct modem connection etc.... The game is truly unplayable.

I'm getting client disconnects more than once an hour. It's extremely frustrating.

ISP: AT&T DSL


2 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
3 21 ms 31 ms 20 ms bras10-l0.mrdnct.sbcglobal.net [204.60.4.46]
4 20 ms 20 ms 19 ms dist2-vlan50.mrdnct.sbcglobal.net [66.159.184.195]
5 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms bb2-10g2-0.mrdnct.sbcglobal.net [151.164.92.153]
6 22 ms 22 ms 23 ms n54ny03jt.ip.att.net [12.122.86.9]
7 27 ms 22 ms 23 ms 192.205.36.106
8 23 ms 25 ms 23 ms xe-4-1-0.cr2.lga5.us.above.net [64.125.30.209]
9 23 ms 27 ms 24 ms ge-1-2-0.mpr2.lga5.us.above.net [64.125.29.58]
10 90 ms 91 ms 89 ms so-3-0-0.mpr1.lhr3.uk.above.net [64.125.28.65]
11 99 ms 90 ms 92 ms 213-152.240-254.PXu259.above.net [213.152.240.254]
12 91 ms 94 ms 92 ms srv245-e.ccp.cc [87.237.36.245]
13 92 ms 97 ms 93 ms srv248-e.ccp.cc [87.237.36.248]
14 96 ms 100 ms 96 ms srv200-g.ccp.cc [87.237.38.200]

Problems:

A) Suddenly Disconnects, no response, no message, nothing responding, no drones, no agent popupwindow, no undock, nothing. Sometimes i can logoff/quit sometimes i need to terminate eve via taskmanager.
B) Sockets Closed Message or Double Sockets Closed Messages.

ISP: Versatel Germany
Line: ADSL 2+ 16Mbit tuned down.
OS: W7 Ultimate 64x
Router: TP Link TD-8840B (RJ45 Cable)

Router ADSL2+ Statistics Screenshot: http://www.abload.de/img/adslstatisticsx9ko2.png

Tracert:

I also have a wifi router. I know the socket closed error is a new thing programed into eve with inferno. And it is my guess that program has something to do with the cause itself. Prior to inferno my eve client never lost connection to eve. I never had to restart a gamming session. I could play for 6 hours+ without an interuption.

After inferno I would get about 3 socket closed disconnects in a 4 hour eve session. I think the program that does the socket closed detection itself is programmed to tight and causes the issue. I think in the past if your client got a bit out of sync with the server it was no big deal as it would self correct after a bit and keep running. But now maybe it is because of tidi itself that the client no longer has the ability to have any slipage and the socket closed error checking is designed to shut down the client as soon as it detects a bit of lag? Guessing on some of this but it kinda makes sense.

Perhaps we always had some lag in the system and it was no big deal until tidi was improved with inferno.
Now the server can not tolerate any lag and we get socket closed. Server forces the issue.

I should note that I changed nothing on my end before/after inferno. Add to that the fact that many other people also began to have problems the same as me after inferno and it becomes obvious something has changed with eve itself. So what could that change be? Well the socket closed protocol for one. And the tidi programming changes with inferno for another.

Duplicated post.